Giovanni di Paolo's Cosmology

AUTHOR(S)

Dixon, Laurinda S.

PUB. DATE

December 1985

SOURCE

Art Bulletin;Dec85, Vol. 67 Issue 4, p604

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Explores the sources and meaning of several aspects of Giovanni di Paolo's 'Expulsion From Paradise' 15th-century panel painting in the Lehman Collection. Explanation of the inclusion of an image of the circular universe within a scene of the Expulsion; Source for the image of the geocentric universe; Interpretation of the panel as a whole.

ACCESSION #

5315090

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